AI-led workflow management for pharmacovigilance, which is required by drug regulators globally to monitor, detect and report adverse drug events (ADEs) throughout a drug's lifecycle - from trials to post-market use. Historically, this work has been outsourced to services firms who manually review social media, call centre logs, emails and legal filings to stay abreast. Targetting enterprise customers in the pharma industry. $3M seed round. Founders: Raghavendra was CBO for Hitech & Services at LTIMindree and Head of Hitech & Services at Larsen & Toubro Infotech; Vijay was at CISCO for 25 years and was more recently at Google Cloud (engineering product management across GCP); Mohan was at Yahoo, ServiceNow and Commure in head of engineering roles in the Bay Area; Ashutosh Bordekar (CFO), not linked here, joined from Mastek and LTIMindtree. Founded in July 2024.

Business intelligence startup which using its proprietary AI engine to deliver descriptive, diagnostic analytics for enterprises. Integrates with 700 data sources. Clients include the government's eMarketplace and IRCTC. ₹4CR seed round. Founder Vipul was at BharatPe, most recently as zonal head for Mumbai, Goa and Gujarat, followed by Tijoree, a neobank, where he headed sales. Founded in Dec 2023.

AI-led SaaS tool for consumer research, which crawls conversations across comments, reviews and posts on social media. The company has 40 customers include WPP, GroupM, Britannia, Foxtale and Godrej. $1.3M seed round. Angels in the round: Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Mekin Maheshwari (Flipkart), Bhavik Dholakia (Swatantra Wealth), Harsh Shah (Fynd), Arnav Kumar (Leap Finance), Shiv Kapoor (Titan Capital), Biswa Kalyan Rath (Comedian). Founder Abilash started Consuma soon after graduating from PES University. Founded in Jan 2021. Comps: thelighbulb AI (Chiratae, Anthill).

Ethical AI platform for enterprises to test, validate and deploy Ai systems that are unbiased and transparent. No information on traction. Round of an undisclosed amount. Founder Neelima was the founder of Tarah AI (tech and business consulting) for 15 years.

AI native data security platform. A unified intelligent anticipates and stops threats before they escalating, by combining data security posture management, insider risk detection, data exfiltration defense, and data loss prevention. Integrates with major enterprise systems - Zoho, Snowflake, Salesforce. $6.25M seed round. Other investors in the round: Carya Venture Partners. Founders: CEO Keshava is ex VMWare, Intuit, Observe AI and was the Co-Founder & CEO Of Optiq.AI (devsecops); CTO Harsh is ex Rivigo, Observe AI and was very briefly Co-Founder & CTO of Fairywren, a platform to connect with skincare experts and shop recommended products. Founded in Mar 2024.

GTM intent platform that integrates with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Apollo, to help companies identify and engage technology buyers based on developer activity. Over a hundred developer-first companies use the platform, including Chainguard, LangChain, N8N, Temporal, Datahub, Unstructured. Bengaluru based, opening its first US office. $4M seed round.

AI native platform for lawyers, working with 200 organizations globally including large law firms, boutique firms and in-house legal teams. It currently helps 3000 lawyers in 9 jurisdictions with drafting, reviewing documents, DD, legal research and translation. This saves lawyers 30 hours per month on average. "We are building Lucio to disappear into legal workflows, to meet lawyers where they already are and elevate the quality of their output.” $5M seed round.

SaaS platform with forensics and manipulation detection AI, offering real-time, multimodal analysis across video, images, audio and test to detect deepfakes. The intent is to identify and mitigate misinformation, fraud and brand impersonation. Currently at the pilot stage with customers in the US and EU - marketplaces, media, finance, and digital platforms. $1M pre-seed round.

All encompassing SaaS tool to manage F&B venues and offline experiences – to manage deals and rewards, reservations and table management, feedback mechanisms, along with customer retention tools. The goal is to reduce dependence on booking apps, third party promoters and excel sheets. 50K bookings at a value of ₹80CR managed so far, saving ₹2CR of revenue leakage. Manages 150 venues in 20 cities, will expand to the Middle East and South East Asia. ₹2.75CR seed round.

Pre-launch platform for brands (D2C, F&B and retail) to enhance customer engagement and loyalty. The platform embeds rewards into brand sites or at checkout, plugs into their CRM and POS, provides analytics, provides a unified wallet to users (across brands) and runs personalised offers to drive retention. Focused on India and the Middle East, targeting 100 brands and a 100K users in the next three months. Pricing: free for the next 3 months during their pilot. Seed round of an undisclosed amount.